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Ernest Orlando Lawrence – The Man, His Lab, His Legacy Archived November 17, 2015, at the Wayback Machine; Lawrence and His Laboratory: A Historian's View of the Lawrence Years Archived January 18, 2018, at the Wayback Machine; Lawrence Livermore Lab: Remembering E. O. Lawrence; Ernest Lawrence on Nobelprize.org ; Nobel-Winners.com: Ernest ...
During the Second World War, centralized sites such as the Radiation Laboratory at MIT and Ernest O. Lawrence's laboratory at Berkeley and the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago allowed for a large number of expert scientists to collaborate towards defined goals as never before, and with government resources of unprecedented ...
CNL began developing nuclear technology in the late 1940's and early 1950's. [2] The government owned company Atomic energy of Canada Limited (AECL) took over Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in 1952, but today the site remains operated through contractors such as CNL. [4] This is referred to as GoCo management, government owned and contractor ...
Robert Lyster Thornton (29 November 1908 – 28 September 1985) was a British-Canadian-American physicist who worked on the cyclotrons at Ernest Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory in the 1930s. During World War II he assisted with the development of the calutron as part of the Manhattan Project .
Another Nobel Prize-winning physicist (in 1939), Ernest Lawrence invented a particle accelerator. He was friendly with Oppenheimer at Berkley, and in the movie, he's portrayed by Josh Harnett.
Canada's first nuclear power plant, a partnership between AECL and Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, went online in 1962 near the site of Chalk River Laboratories. This reactor, Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD), was a demonstration of the CANDU reactor design, one of the world's safest and most successful nuclear reactors.
A disappointed Oliphant flew to the United States to speak to the American scientists. These included Ernest Lawrence at the University of California's Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley. [12] The two men had met before the war, and were friends. [13] Lawrence was sufficiently impressed to commence his own research into uranium. [12]
The Nuclear industry (as distinct from the uranium industry) in Canada dates back to 1942 when a joint British-Canadian laboratory was set up in Montreal, Quebec, under the administration of the National Research Council of Canada, to develop a design for a heavy-water nuclear reactor.